What was your gifted child like as a baby?

[Peridotty]

Hi! What could your gifted children do when they were a baby? I read that a sign of gifted ness is a first word before 9months. Is that the best sign?
My baby is 8 months old. Pretty advanced in her motor skills I would say compared to others that I know (rolling from 3 months, sitting independently at 5 months, crawling and pulling to stand at 6/7 months, standing independently at 7 months). However she has no interest in books, she just gets grumpy when I put a book in front of her, all she wants to do is crawl and pull up to stand!!! She doesn’t make many speech sounds although she makes lots of vowel sounds in general. Only just started making ‘ge ge ge’ sounds at 8 months when she is whining. No Ms or Bs yet. She doesn’t look like she pays attention when we are speaking. Doesn’t try to imitate our speech or mouths.
So i was wondering what did your babies do? And is my baby basically not gifted haha.

Just focus on how lovely and healthy your baby is don’t worry about the bloody ‘gifted brigade’ . It’s a lot of pressure

Dd met all of her milestones slap bang in the middle of expected ages. The first sign of her being ahead of peers was very rapid speech development - she never talked in baby talk that was tricky to understand. One day she babbled, the next she talked with confidence and clarity. Same with walking, she didn't toddle, she couldn't walk and then she could walk with ease.

Annoying and hard work

Haha I do. She’s so lovely. Just that she has no interest in books and I just spent a fortune in board books (I bought 75 books). And I thought babies could say baba and mama from around 7 months. I think I have a walker and not a talker. I don’t mind if she isn’t gifted but I hope she is smart. (I’m not gifted but I think my husband is).

Your baby sounds completely normal.

Meeting physical milestones early has fuck all to do with intelligence. Generally, if a baby is smaller, they move more and earlier. DD did everything at the same time as your baby, she's a 2nd centile baby. According to our HV it's very common for little ones to be ahead physically.

@Ohalrightthen yes I know that hitting motor milestones early has nothing to do with intelligence which is why I am concentrating more on her speaking. But she doesn’t seem to be showing much interest there.

[quote Peridotty]@Ohalrightthen yes I know that hitting motor milestones early has nothing to do with intelligence which is why I am concentrating more on her speaking. But she doesn’t seem to be showing much interest there.[/quote]
Because she's 8 months old!

@Ohalrightthen I was just wondering what the especially bright babies were doing at this age! Were they well on their way to talking ?

Einstein couldn't talk till he was around 4 or 5

It's a little odd to be wondering this about an 8 month old, let alone posting on a chat forum about it. Just enjoy your baby.

[quote Peridotty]@Ohalrightthen yes I know that hitting motor milestones early has nothing to do with intelligence which is why I am concentrating more on her speaking. But she doesn’t seem to be showing much interest there.[/quote]
She's only 8 months old, there's plenty of time for speaking. Trust me you'll be wishing for peace and quiet when she spends all day chatting your ear off. You sound like you're a really engaged parent, just enjoy her and let her develop in her own time.

Born late, too fat to ever roll, sat up late, walked late and failed motor assessments in nursery when I was asked to pick up raisins and put them into a pot because I ate them all. Referred for speech therapy because I didn't speak. Just wasn't interested.

I'm a size 8 now, never shut up and im a doctor.

I wouldn't read too much into it.

My DH was a gifted child. He needed speech therapy. He's a smart enough but normal adult.

[quote Peridotty]@Ohalrightthen I was just wondering what the especially bright babies were doing at this age! Were they well on their way to talking ?[/quote]
I was classed as "gifted" by school, i didn't speak til about 18m. The smartest person I've ever met was silent until 3 or 4.

Ds(3.5) could colour match and point to the right shapes at 10 months. He could put in order the upper case alphabet by 13 months and both upper and lower at 15 months. He could put in order numbers 1-200 by 18 months and probably higher but that’s how many cards we had. Could read stories by 2.
He’s never spoken a word and was diagnosed with ASD just before his third birthday, and hyperlexic at the same time.

Mine said her first word, ‘ducks,’ at 9 months and is highly gifted - one of those people who can learn anything and do anything. She was always very advanced as a child and was speaking in complex sentences by the time she was 18 months old.

But there’s really no need to worry about this sort of thing too much - make sure she’s happy, well fed and feels emotionally secure; teach her to love books and reading; foster a sense of curiosity and love of discovery, and she will be just fine.

There’s much more to life than one specific kind of intelligence and your focus should mostly be on raising a well-balanced, well-rounded and well-adjusted child, because then she has the biggest chance of a happy and contented life, no matter how smart (or not) she turns out to be.

Honesty just enjoy your baby. It flies by. I have a son who struggled all through primary school and is now excelling at secondary.
This early Years go so quickly so just enjoy them be have fun. If your baby isn’t interested in something then put it aside and try later. Those books won’t go to waste. Mine like a sucepan and a spoon the Most

Thanks! I think I have a normal child then lol. She definitely can’t pick out shapes or colours! I have been playing the shape sorter with her and the stacker and she literally just puts them in her mouth!! And no way can she say ‘ducks’ by next month hahah. My husband and I have been chasing after her and saying ‘mama’, ‘dada’ in her face but cue blank looks

Please don't take this the wrong way, but you need to make sure you chill out about the "gifted" thing as she gets older. She'll end up stressed and miserable even if she is very smart, and if she's not, she'll feel like a failure. She's her own person, she doesn't exist for you to be proud of, please please please let her find her own level.

@Ohalrightthen thank you!! Don’t worry I’m not a tiger mum!!

[quote Peridotty]@Ohalrightthen thank you!! Don’t worry I’m not a tiger mum!![/quote]
Sure. Just wondering if your 8m old baby is a genius, like we all do... Please, just let her be a baby. Watching her like a hawk for any sign of intelligence will give her a comllex.

*complex

All mine had a couple of words by 9 months, but not before (apart from DS2 repeating words, but not saying them independently) and none of them are gifted.

I rolling early a sign of being gifted? How about loads of summersaults in the womb?

Don’t be one of those mums.
Just let her be a baby ffs